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Pilgrim’s Moy Park Funds Stand To – Supporting Mental Health

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Moy Park has awarded £4,800 to local charity Stand To – Supporting Mental Health to fund CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training for 200 young adults in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon area. The funding has been provided by Moy Park’s Community Support Fund – a £1million fund through which the company supports good…

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Pilgrim’s Moy Park Supports the Causeway Giants Wheelchair Basketball Club

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A Coleraine-based basketball club has been awarded funding by Moy Park as part of its ongoing Community Support Fund initiative. The Causeway Giants Wheelchair Basketball Club is benefitting from a total of £2,000 from Moy Park’s Community Support Fund. The funds will be used to help with the cost of training facilities, as well as…

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Pilgrim’s Moy Park Funds Love, Hope and Faith in Ballymena

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A local community group based in Ballymena has been awarded funding by Moy Park. Love, Hope and Faith is a registered charity established for the relief of those in need through a framework of active support and encouragement for children with long term conditions such as Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. The group was awarded the…

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Pilgrim’s Moy Park Generates Renewable Electricity

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Since 2017, Pilgrim’s Moy Park has worked with anaerobic digester and biogas partners to supply one of the first Renewable Energy Power Stations in the world fueled solely by poultry litter. By combining conventional anaerobic digestion with nitrogen-stripping technology, the plant generates 3 MW of renewable electricity/year from 40,000 tonnes of Moy Park’s locally-sourced manure.…

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Pilgrim’s US Upgrades Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Systems to Reduce GHG Emissions

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Many of our facilities utilize an anaerobic lagoon as part of their wastewater treatment system. The lagoon removes a significant amount of carbon-based pollutants, but in so doing creates methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas. At all but two facilities, Pilgrim’s US captures the methane and destroys it, nearly eliminating GHG emissions. Since announcing our…

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Pilgrim’s US Implements Its First Solar Energy Project in West Texas

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In an effort to use more sustainable electricity through use of solar power, Pilgrim’s partnered with one of the largest energy suppliers in North America to implement our first U.S. solar energy project in Texas. West Texas has some of the greatest solar and wind power potential in the country thanks to the area’s abundant…

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Pilgrim’s Moy Park Releases 2021 Animal Welfare Report

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It’s important that producers like Moy Park not only respond to the requests of their customers, but that they take ownership of their own animal welfare strategy with strong governance and management. Establishing clear objectives and targets specific to their business, provides a good framework for continuous improvement and reporting forms a large part of…

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Pilgrim’s Moy Park Creates ‘Behavioral Science for Leadership in Safety’ Program

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As a crucial element in our journey to Zero Harm, our continued focus on Behavioral Safety has been key and critical in improving standards and reducing workplace lost time accidents. Building on our work to date, Moy Park has now partnered with renowned Behavioral Science subject matter experts to develop an IOSH Certified blended-learning, online…

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Pilgrim’s Moy Park Awarded 8th Consecutive RoSPA Gold Award for Safety

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Pilgrim’s Moy Park was awarded the RoSPA Gold Award for Health and Safety for the 8th year in a row, and the Gold Award for Fleet Safety for the 7th consecutive time. The RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Awards scheme is the longest-running of its kind in the UK, and receives entries…

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Pilgrim’s Sees Success in Partnership with Instacart, CommerceIQ

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In response to the growing popularity of online marketplaces and delivery services among retail brands such as Instacart, Pilgrim’s sought an additional partnership to help push more online sales their way. Pilgrim’s was placing ads within the Instacart marketplace, however, after consulting with E-commerce analytics platform and Instacart Ads partner, CommerceIQ (CIQ), they have seen…

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